On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 17:02:48 UTC, Ruby The Roobster wrote:
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 16:58:25 UTC, Ruby The Roobster
wrote:
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 15:07:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[SNIP]
In other words, you're trying to construct a BigInt with a
value of 10^18030 (a number with 18030 digits) and wondering
why the computer is taking forever to compute the value. :-D
[SNIP]
T
I have no idea how the program generated a 18k+ digit number,
but apparently changing the `+` to a `*` on line 158 solved
the problem.
Oop. Just realized that was because I commented out the line
involving the bug
Turns out that using negative numbers breaks it.